Chapter Seventy-One: Expansion of the Army
Embracing a beautiful woman, stepping on the snow to find plums, feeling each other's heartbeats and body tremors, the feeling at that moment, whether it is a lofty past life or this life, has never been experienced. At that moment, he really realized what it means to only envy mandarin ducks and not immortals, if in this life, he can be like this every day, all the time, what more can the husband ask for!
The only fly in the ointment is that they forgot about the quiet two shijie, completely forgot the passage of time, and when they returned to the city, it was already the beginning of the lantern season, and the consequence was that Ye Feng was beaten by Ye's buttocks, so that when Ye Feng cried and found Gao Yuan, Gao Yuan could only be coaxed, and made a lot of promises, which can be regarded as making this aggrieved boy burst into tears and laughed, fortunately, the two parties did not receive any punishment from Ye's, which is a blessing in misfortune.
With a satisfied aftertaste and joy, Gao Yuan returned to the barracks on the third day, and the moment he saw the barracks, Gao Yuan was stunned, rubbing his eyes vigorously, he thought he was in the wrong place.
That's right, it's indeed your own piece of barracks, but when did the grass hut around the outside of the barracks appear? Where did those large groups of men sitting or lying down with at least one or two hundred people jumping out of tattered clothes, yellow faces and thin muscles, and unable to find a few taels of flesh on their bodies?
"Gao Bingcao is back!" The two spear-wielding sentinels guarding the gate had already seen him when Gao Yuan's eyes widened inexplicably, and they opened their mouths in unison and shouted out at the same time.
With this shout, not only the soldiers who poured out of the various dormitories, but also the ragged men outside the barracks suddenly stood up and flocked to Gao Yuan with the soldiers.
The magnitude of its formation startled Gao Yuan, and he almost turned his horse and fled. The hero does not suffer the loss in front of him, Gao Yuan still understands this truth, his hand just tightened, and suddenly reflected, no, this is his own military camp, there are his own soldiers among those people in front, and he wants to escape? Running at the front are Cao Tiancheng and Sun Xiao, Cao Tiancheng jumped and jumped, it seems that in the past dozens of days, Cao Tiancheng has not only healed the injuries on his body, but also the injuries in his heart have almost healed, of course, maybe this scar has been hidden deeper.
Looking at the appearance of the soldiers and those men, it seems that they get along very well. What's going on? He turned over and dismounted, and led the horse to meet the crowd.
"Hyosa!" Cao Tiancheng and Sun Xiao ran in front of Gao Yuan, their faces flushed with excitement, and at the same time, they clenched their left hands into fists and touched them their right chests. Misses us to death."
Takato haha smiled, "I miss you too!" How's it going, you weren't lazy when I wasn't there, were you?"
"How dare you be lazy?" Sun Xiao said with a smile: "I have been trained by Jun Cao Cao for several months, and now if I don't practice him a few times a day, I will be itching all over my body."
"Jun Cao has traveled a long way, all the way hard, but he didn't forget to bring us New Year's gifts, thank you Jun Cao!" Cao Tiancheng said gratefully.
"Since it's a brother, no matter where you go, you naturally have to think about everyone, a little meaning, it's nothing more than a mind, right Tiancheng, what's going on!" Gao Yuan's eyes looked at the men with a look of anticipation on the periphery of the soldiers.
As Gao Yuan's gaze came over, more than two hundred men all knelt down with a hula, kowtowing like pounding garlic, Gao Yuan was caught off guard, and when he saw this formation, he jumped up all of a sudden, and was surrounded by hundreds of men kneeling in the middle, which didn't seem to be very pleasant.
"Gao Bingcao, take us!"
"Gao Bing Cao, we want to follow you as a soldier!"
"Gao Bing Cao, we want to kill the Donghu people!"
"Gao Bingcao, we want revenge!"
"Gao Bingcao, take us to revenge!"
The thunderous roar outside bombarded Gao Yuan, and looking at these men who looked excited, excited, or grief-stricken, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded, and stood there speechless.
"Gao Bingcao, go back to the barracks first, let's talk slowly!" Seeing that the situation was not right, Cao Tiancheng hurriedly made a look at Sun Xiao, Sun Xiao immediately separated the crowd with the two infantrymen, Yan Haibo came over to lead the war horse, and led Gao Yuan all the way into the gate. Cao Tiancheng stayed, where he appeased the group of men.
Walking into the gate, I saw Zheng Xiaoyang, who seemed to be smiling under the eaves, standing there with his arms in his arms, looking like he was watching a joke.
"Brother Zheng!" Gao Yuan clenched his fists and called out politely.
"Brother Gao has worked hard all the way, this time I went to Liaoxi City with Lieutenant Lu, it must have been an eye-opener!" Zheng Xiaoyang returned the salute, but he was still a little yin and yang.
"Don't dare, it's really an eye-opener, Liaoxi City is worthy of being a county town, not that we can compare with the wind, when we get there, I know that we are really a poor country here, Yangxi City is like this, I don't know what kind of situation Jicheng is, I must go and see it if I have the opportunity."
"Hah!" Zheng Xiaoyang laughed, "I'm afraid it's very rare!" With a flick of his sleeves, he turned around and went back to the dormitory, and the soldiers behind him immediately followed him into the door, and with a bang, the door slammed shut.
"Gao Bing Cao Mo is angry, he just hasn't been to Liaoxi City, and his eyes are hot Bing Cao!" Sun Xiao said with a smile.
Gao Yuan looked at the closed door and said thoughtfully, "They seem to be a little different!"
"In these days when Bing Cao was not there, we still trained according to the tasks assigned by Bing Cao every day, at the beginning, these guys were still watching the excitement on the side, and they didn't sleep until three poles on the day every day and never got up, and then they were probably a little embarrassed, so Zheng Bingcao also learned from us, and organized dozens of his soldiers to start training, not to mention, after practicing for more than 20 days, these dozens of soldiers seemed to be more energetic."
Gao Yuan smiled and nodded, "Yes, it seems that this Zheng Bingcao is not completely a dry eater. It's good to be able to practice, it's good to be willing to practice, and with this heart, Zheng Bingcao will have some achievements in the future."
Pushing open the door, a hot air came to the face, the windows in the house were almost bright, and the big kang was burning hot.
Seeing that Gao Yuan was a little puzzled, Sun Xiao hurriedly explained: "In these days when Bing Cao is away, we will come to clean Bing Cao's house every day, after Yan Haibo and the infantry return to the barracks, we don't know when Bing Cao will come back, so we will burn the big kang every day, so as not to let Bing Cao enter the door, it will be cold and smoky."
"I have a heart!" Gao Yuan nodded with satisfaction, "Yes, I really feel like I am home, sit down, tell me, what's going on outside?"
Pointing outside, Takato asked.
"Gao Bing Cao, these are the people who survived the villages outside when the Donghu people invaded a month ago, they were young, they ran fast, and they escaped, but their families are ......" Sun Xiao shook his head, "I heard them say, after going back, some found the bodies of their relatives, and some found nothing, and they all became alone."
"And what is it about them coming to us?" Takato asked dissatisfied.
Sun Xiao suddenly became excited, "Gao Bingcao, you don't know yet, in the days when you were away, you only took Yan Haibo and the infantry out of the city, and you killed more than a dozen Donghu people, but now in Fufeng County, the old and young know it, and the storyteller also made up a joke and told it in the teahouse!" There are a lot of people who go to listen every day, these men originally came to the county to ask the county commander to give them the master, and after hearing these stories, they flocked to us, wanting to be a soldier, and wanting to learn skills from Lord Bing Cao, so as to kill the Donghu people to take revenge!"
"We're an army!" Gao Yuan couldn't cry or laugh, "They can come if they want to?" Moreover, such a group of guys who are carried away by hatred really know what an army is and what military discipline is?"
"Bingcao, when you first came, didn't we understand anything? But you look at us now, the order is forbidden, right, that's what you said, these people are full of hatred in their hearts, better, hatred can make people full of liliang, practice for a few months, it is definitely a good hand." Sun Xiao said excitedly.
Gao Yuan stood up and walked around the house a few times, "You have a point, these people have nothing to worry about now, but they can be taken down, we will go to Curie Pass to camp in the New Year, and now there is such a Donghu tribe outside Curie Pass that ignores the rules, I am afraid that there will be no less conflict at that time, and more than 100 of us are indeed a bit lonely."
"Yes, yes, when these people came, Tiancheng said that Gao Bingcao would definitely accept them, these days, Tiancheng boiled a pot of porridge every day for them to live, if Bing Cao promised to accept them, then today we can give them food according to the food of the official soldiers? It's just Bing Cao, we only have a hundred soldiers in our team, if they come, what will happen to this number of soldiers?" Sun Xiao was excited, but he was a little embarrassed.
"Take it first, tell them that I don't have a military salary to pay them now, I can only take care of the food, and I will only be able to make up the military salary next year when I have money. As for the number of soldiers, you don't care about it, I'll go to the county lieutenant and say."
"Well, how did I forget, the county lieutenant is your uncle!" Sun Xiaoxi said.
"You go out and tell them that if you want to join the army, you have to strictly abide by military discipline, you first tell them what military discipline is, and the general discipline will be memorized to them one by one, and if they can't stand it, they will ask them to leave, and in the past two days, let them first memorize the military discipline for me, and after two days, I will check, and if I can't memorize it, I won't accept it!" Gao Yuan said sharply.
"Understood!" Sun Xiaoyi stepped forward and said loudly.
Seeing Sun Xiao go out, Gao Yuan couldn't help but smile, and when he was really dozing off, someone sent a pillow over.
There was a sudden loud cheer outside, and it was obvious that Sun Xiao had already told these homeless people outside of his decision.